Roger Casement Quotes
Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no
dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood.
Casement, Roger. "Speech from the Dock." Trial of Sir Roger Casement, edited by George H. Knott, William Hodge & Company, 1917, p. 213.
Although a member of the Prime Minister’s party and Cabinet, Cooper was so outraged that he called for Chamberlain’s resignation leading to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister.
He had been exiled to the United States.
Hoxha was a mixture of extreme Communist and extreme nationalist. Note the paranoia about intermarriage and interbreeding with other nationalities which was typical of Balkan nations,. He actually deluded himself into thinking that Albanian occupation and invasion had never resulted in female fraternization or rape and subsequent ethnic mixing. International communism however, on this point was just the opposite of Hoxha’s—the advocated an international view of intermarriage and breeding. Theirs was a class paranoia, not a nationalistic or racial paranoia.
Roger David Casement, known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru.
